Ah! I wanna cry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is my last helper day in MorinoKi. I will
gonna miss it. Definitely I will miss Masa-san, MoMo, Hug and MorinoKi.
It is one of the beautiful page in my life. I am so glad that Masa-san let me
be part of this project provided that I cannot speak Japanese and work clumsy.

Last but not least, I dedicated this word
art to Morinoki, this is first time in my life to do this. Thanks the souvenir shop provide me such a lot of shopping bags to do the drafting.

Masa-san can no longer eat fresh plum after he turned 30. I can no longer take alcohol after 30. We got allergy respectively. Sometimes we just can't take something (no matter we like or not) anymore out of sudden. I believe we just used up the quota of it. I miss the nights, hang out with friends in bars, we drink, we smoke, we swear, we say silly things. It is kind of enjoyment which I classified as "too good to be true". After I got the drinking allergy, I realize everything has its limit, has its quota. We just have to stop it when the limit comes. It leads me hesitate to have the things which is too good to be true because I am afraid of losing it and I hate the feeling of missing something forever. BUT today I have new understanding after Masa-san give me this. This is Black beer BUT alcohol free.

HAHA! Thanks Masa-san for this beer. Thanks Otaru for this amazing things! My drinking days can be back. YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!

Although I cannot drink alcohol, I can still drink beer. There are always options. Right! My alcohol day is over however my drinking days are now begin. I will no longer afraid of having too good to be true because it does happen if we keep explore the options.

Although I have not join Masa-san beer party tonight, I have a good time staying in Morinoki. I have chit chat with Taiwanese, tea with British, whoof sharing with Malaysian, itinerary discussion with Hong Kong people and drunk talk with Japanese. Isn't it great! Thanks MorinoKi for all that. It's just too good to be true.

Today Masa-san told me his travel story before he started Morinoki. I am so proud of him. To take care MorinoKi, he is not likely to have long journey but I think he is now continue his journey by helping other travellers to have theirs.

I grow up from a very traditional Chinese family which my mum always told me that not to talk to stranger, not to get freebie from stranger. However starting from this trip, I have different thought. We have to be nice to everyone and pass the helping heart on. Haha! Am I talking like John Lennon? In this hostel, we make friends regardless of their background, colors, religious... we interact and share, we enjoy we are different and learn from each others.

O! Andry wake up from the bed I made this morning. Hope he has a nice sleep in the bed I made. It brings me satisfaction like the first transaction is done in a new job.

I was plan to go picnic next to the temple, I was plan to go the shopping mall.....etc. I have too many plans but plan is plan, none of these has happened today. The picnic plan is gone, as I am so hungry to walk to the temple. The shopping plan is gone as I am so sleepy after lunch. I took a 4 hours nap, 2-6pm. Lazy Sue has a relax day. Awesome!

The dinner I cooked tonight, potato chicken rice with the movie, buckle list as my side dish.

Satisfied Sue reporting the above when she is planning to go 7-11 buy herself an ice-cream as desert to conclude the day. Hope this time she can make this happen.

Following the friend reunion trip in Tokyo, I have continued my Hokkaido working holiday trip phase 2, starting in MorinoKi in Otaru. The journey on my own is now to begin. I am expecting a lot of first time is gonna be happen. I am expecting to see how I can sort things out in this foreign country which I am totally an illiterate. I can't read, I can't speak and I can't understand everything in Japanese. Everything is new to me, somehow it is a whole new world to me. It must gonna be fun. I am going to comprehend everything by my common sense, by imitating, by my passion of helping other travelers like me... etc. I am going to have wonder by wonder, I think it is what traveling means, to explore, to wonder, to understand oneself in a different world in a different way.

WHOOP it up!

whoop it up!

WHOOP is “Working Holiday on Otaru Project”.
The meaning is “Let’s long term stay while working as a exchange helper in Hokkaido Otaru. “

"Cultural Exchange"

The MorinoKi helper is to exchange your hostel charge for work several hours at the hotel.
Good for long stay traveler, and Working Holiday Maker.
In WHOOP, the exchange of “Working” and “Stay” is not only the aims. This most important aim is “Cultural Exchange. ”
It is cultural exchange between the helper and the MorinoKi staffs, the helper and the traveler, helper and the local people.

"Japanese lesson for whooper"

Japanese lessons available from a licensed Japanese teacher in MorinoKi.